Is it entirely practical to use particular connecting rods rated to 500 HP in a street driven naturally aspirated 450HP engine that occasionally turns into 600 HP on nitrous... with the engine limited to say 6250 RPM in both cases? For example, this is my setup:

From my understanding, connecting rod ratings in particular should at least be listed in terms of RPM, not HP alone. Usually, if not always, the first thing to destroy a rod & its fasteners are tensile stresses, which would be correlated to RPM.
I mean hypothetically couldn't you run stock rods in a 1000 hp engine as long is it was made under say 6000 RPM? Would the corresponding 1000+ ft-lbs ever "bend" even a stock rod? Am I missing something?

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